David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a writer, lecturer, and editor who is Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network. He is also President of Wrekin Trust and Chief Consultant of Character Education Scotland.  He is also a former President of the Swedenborg Society and Vice-President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (UK). Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, most recently The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has a long-standing interest in the perennial wisdom and has translated and edited books about the Bulgarian sage Peter Deunov. His book Prophet for our Times was re-issued in September 2015 with a foreword by Dr. Wayne Dyer.

He is a founding member of the International Futures Forum and was editor of its digest, Omnipedia – Thinking for Tomorrow. He was also a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize and a Churchill Fellow. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales – Radical Prince – has been translated into Dutch, Spanish and French. He is the originator of the Inspire-Aspire Values Poster Programmes, which this year involved over 25,000 young people. See www.inspire-aspire.org.uk  and www.character-scotland.org.uk